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Autore |
Kühne Thomas <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Belonging and genocide [[electronic resource] ] : Hitler's community, 1918-1945 / / Thomas Kühne |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (vii, 216 p.)) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Community life - Germany - History - 20th century |
Fellowship - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
Genocide - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
Antisemitism - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
Shame - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
National socialism - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Germany Social life and customs 20th century |
Germany Social conditions 20th century |
Germany Race relations History 20th century |
Germany Armed Forces Military life History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Craving community : World War I and the myth of comradeship -- Fabricating the male bond : the racial nation as a training camp -- Performing genocidal ethics : togetherness in Himmler's elite -- Spreading complicity : pleasure and qualms in the cynical army -- Watching terror : women in the community of crime. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer. In addition to the hatred of Jews or coercion that created a genocidal society, he contends, the desire for a united "people's community" made Germans conform and join together in mass crime.Exploring private letters, |
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diaries, memoirs, secret reports, trial records, and other documents, the author shows how the Nazis used such common human needs as community, belonging, and solidarity to forge a nation conducting the worst crime in history. |
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